Read moreA model farm — with few farmers — in North KoreaThe Post arrives in North Korea for a once-in-a-generation party congressIt’s party time in North Korea. [North Korea announces five-year economic plan, its first since the 1980s]Reporting from North Korea is still a relatively rare experience, even if journalists are taken to the same historical monuments, ­electrical-cable factories and maternity wards — none of which are especially known for their news value — each time. Workers’ Party party time. I’d been here once before, on my first trip to North Korea, in 2005. Moon, the director, had previously answered my questions about sanctions by saying that North Korea adapted by building seven of its own X-ray machines, including a portable one.

Source: Washington Post May 11, 2016 20:03 UTC